Carlyle
Subtitle: Essay on Burns
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781417986583
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: IN the modern arrangements of society, it is no uncommon thing that a man o genius must, like Butler, 'ask for bread and receive a stone;' for, in spite of our grand maxim of supply and demand, it is by no means the highest excellence that men are most forward to recognize.